It is once again only a matter of time before many students across the country embark on the great journey that is college. Five weeks until orientation becomes four, and then three, and before you know it the time has come to pack up and move out. Orientation week is a week of controlled chaos in which everyone tries to meet as many people as he or she possibly can, “speed dating” style. So, when you become tired of asking and answering the same questions over and over again, and you will, here is a list of questions that you can ask to help diversify your first encounters with your peers.

1. What is your favorite book and how has it influenced your life?
2. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
3. Have you been to any concerts? Which ones?
4. What is your biggest pet peeve?
5. What is your biggest worry?
6. What is your favorite word and why?
7. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
8. Do you have any pets?
9. What is your favorite TV show/series?
10. What is your spirit animal?
11. What is your favorite thing about yourself?
12. What is your best feature?
13. What is the nicest thing someone has ever said to you?
14. What do you think you were doing this time last year?
15. Do you have any siblings?
16. 7:30 am or 7:30 pm?
17. What is your guilty pleasure?
18. What is your favorite season? Why?
19. What is your greatest achievement?
20. What does happiness means to you?
21. Do you believe in Bigfoot?
22. Team Edward or Team Jacob?
23. Team Peeta or Team Gale?
24. If you were to be sorted into a Hogwarts house, would you actually be placed in the house you would want to be placed in?
25. Which Disney Princess is your favorite?
26. What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up?
27. What is your spirit kitchen appliance?
28. What is your favorite holiday?
29. What is your favorite family tradition?
30. Even numbers or odd numbers?
31. Would rather be stranded on an island or in the mountains?
32. If you were stranded on an island, what celebrity would you bring pick to be stranded with you and why?
33. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
34. Coffee or tea?
35. Milk chocolate or dark chocolate?
36. What is your go-to in a game of rock, paper, scissors?
37. Would you rather it be super hot all the time or super cold?
38. Would you rather be 2 feet tall or 20 feet tall?
39. Do you have a hidden talent? What is it?
40. What is your favorite form of transportation?
41. Did you work this summer? What did you do?
42. What was your favorite vacation?
43. What song could you never grow tired of listening to?
44. What is your favorite sport to play? To watch?
45. What is your favorite kind of candy?
46. What is your favorite noodle shape?
47. What food would you still not eat if it were your only chance of survival?
48. What is your biggest fear?
49. What are you most anxious for this year?
50. What are you most excited for this year?